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Subvert: a brand new music platform owned by artists, workers, supporters and labels

Subvert just launched its direct-from-artist music platform based on bandcamp 8 days ago. It's a co-op so if you're an artist, a label, a worker or a customer you can part own the company, as I do. You can buy physical music, digital or merch. You can also take part in democracy once that gets started.

I'm not getting paid to promote this service. I just want to see a co-op and small artists thrive.

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u/Lemmyatom96 — 1 day ago
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Why should socialists avoid Spotify?

I quit Spotify several months ago purely for Financial reasons. I now use YouTube music, and unfortunately I no longer can listen to certain podcasts.

The argument I hear against usong Spotify is that it rips off artists. Here is the thing, I do not listen to underground artists. The artists I listen to are either rich or dead. In fact, I think many of these artists are far too rich in the first place.

Not to mention, aren’t socialists supposed to be against IP and copyright? If you don't feel bad about pirating content, why feel bad about streaming music from centimillionaire artists?

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u/TomatilloOrnery4944 — 1 day ago
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUXXGCfkyrReLqjZFRTNbaYHPWGszky0_bdTGDr9RZNV-9GQ/viewform

hello! because it is a world cup year i am doing something different and doing an additional marx madness tournament specifically for the world cup

the marx madness world cup survey form has been officially released for 2026. please fill out the form by selecting as many or as little people who you have been influenced by politically.

if there is someone you have been influenced by who has not been included (especially if it’s from a country/region/nation where only a few/no ppl were listed), please let me know and their inclusion will be heavily considered

if there are any questions at all please let me know!!the poll will run until may 24th!

i would also encourage ppl to name search if they haven’t found someone as people may be listed under a particular country/region/nation based on their ancestry

the results will be announced on the twitter account @transjewtalian on march 24th

u/TheBrokenNB — 3 days ago
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They Might Be Giants - The Communists Have the Music (Official Video)

I found this amusing:

I got handed an Ayn Rand sandwich straight from a can it tasted so bland

I asked a lass to pass me a glass

of Engel's Conditions of the Working Class

right away they dragged me to the committee to explain my un-American activity they're gonna see they made a mistake if they'd only let me play my mixtape

I'm not partial to the martial or the plutocrats in their beaver hats and the fascists have the outfits but | don't care for the outfits what | care about is music and the communists have the music

I hear a melody and just as suddenly

I know who I'm supposed to be

I don't need a rationale to sing the Internationale

I only need to plug in the headphone jack so I can listen to my backing track

I'm not jealous of the zealous or anarchics with guitar picks and the fascists have their outfits but | don't care for the outfits what | care about is music and the communists have the music yes the communists have the music oh the communists have the music

I hear a melody and just as suddenly

I know who I'm supposed to be

I'm not partial to the martial or the plutocrats in their beaver hats and the fascists have the outfits but I don't care for the outfits what I care about is music and the communists have the music

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u/Jlyplaylists — 3 days ago
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Hopeful songs anticipating post-capitalist future?

I’ve noticed something strange about a lot of left music recommendations: We have loads of songs about resistance, collapse, corruption, exploitation and fighting back. But surprisingly few songs about what life after positive change might actually feel like.

I mean songs where people already sound like they’re living differently: sharing food, rebuilding community, working together, tending land, feeling emotionally less alienated, less lonely, less trapped and truly free.

Music that makes another social world feel imaginable and desirable.

So I’m building a playlist around that feeling:

hopeful anticipatory consciousness, communal joy, post-capitalist everyday life, utopian folk memory, that sort of thing. Utopian but not naïve and hopeful but not saccharine (trickiest aspect of this playlist).

Current influences are folk, roots, reggae, soul, anti-folk, oddball communal music, joyful-but-not-religious songs, ironic or playful left songs, and songs with emotional lift. More cultural diversity would be good.

This is the provisional list:

1 New World Coming - darkDARK Remix Nina Simone,darkDARK

2 Reason I Sing Resistance Revival Chorus,Valerie June

3 There Is a Time (feat. Kelsey Wilson) Whiskey Shivers,Kelsey Wilson

4 Better Way - War Mix Ben Harper

5 After the Revolution Carsie Blanton

6 People Have the Power Patti Smith

7 We Shall Be Known (FunkPharm Mix) FunkPharm,MaMuse,Jami+

8 Seeds Ayla Nereo

9 Endless Tree Valerie June

10 These Old Stories Three Wheels Turning,Samara Jade,Micaela Kingslight,Aimée Ringle

11 Joy Comes Back Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem

12 Where the Wild Birds Call Dusty The Kid

13 Dark Honey Martin Simpson,Andy Cutting,Nancy Kerr

14 How Shall We Come Together Maggie Wheeler

15 The Big Rock Candy Mountain Harry McClintock

16 Wild and Free Sarina Partridge

17 Social Living Burning Spear

18 Big Ship Freddie McGregor

19 One Day The Kiffness,Matisyahu

20 (Nothing But) Flowers Talking Heads

21 Pure The Lightning Seeds

22 The Moss Cosmo Sheldrake

23 Tomorrow's Garden Post Coal Prom Queen

24 New World Coming Augustine

25 We Rise Batya Levine

26 Be Good Carsie Blanton

27 Your Heart's a Big Tent Willi Carlisle

28 What a Beautiful Day Levellers

29 I'll Be There Phil Ochs

30 The World Turned Upside Down Billy Bragg

31 Joyful Motherfuckers Allison Russell

32 I Think I'll Call It Morning Gil Scott-Heron

33 Colors Playing For Change,Black Pumas,Slash,The Pocket Queen,Tony Kanal

34 Thulasizwe (I Shall Be Released) Miriam Makeba,Nina Simone

35 The Communists Have the Music They Might Be Giants

36 Revolution Toots & The Maytals

37 Thus Always To Tyrants The Oh Hellos

38 The Lost Words Blessing Spell Songs,Julie Fowlis,Karine Polwart,Seckou Keita +

39 I Believe in Being Ready Rising Appalachia

40 Utopian Futures Kimya Dawson

41 Bound by a Thread Gaelynn Lea

42 Beautiful Dawn The Wailin' Jennys

43 Home Inside Valerie June

44 Metropolis of Eden Sparkbird,Stephan Nance

45 Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream Crys Matthews

46 Le Chant des Fauves Playing For Change,Tinariwen

47 Welcome Table Dan Zanes,Friends,The Blind Boys Of Alabama

48 I Know We're Gonna Make It Rory Lavelle

49 One Voice The Wailin' Jennys

50 I Shall Be Released - Extended Version Joan Baez

51 Astral Plane Valerie June

52 This Is How We Walk On The Moon Arthur Russell

53 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards Billy Bragg

54 This Train (Bound For Glory) Big Bill Broonzy

55 Better World A Comin' Woody Guthrie

56 Ella's Song Sweet Honey In The Rock

57 The Internationale Alistair Hulett

58 Power and Glory Phil Ochs

59 Brand New Day - 2013 Remaster Van Morrison

60 Rise Up Singing Daisy May

61 Somewhere to Begin Sara Thomsen

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTouLzvyfuaho5vY9mLmlhwqFOjJCsD8V&si=46eGKoEPZIOSQ09Q

Tidal https://tidal.com/playlist/a72550e3-79ce-4a8a-a161-9295e0304092 (missing The Internationale Alistair Hulett, Rise Up Singing Daisy May)

Do any of these songs annoy you? Why? If lots of people don’t like the same song I’ll remove.

What’s your favourite on the list?

Should I split into folk vs electronic genres?

Any ideas? If I seem too fussy just suggest the first song that came to mind!

What do you think about the utopian function of music? Is it something that can help redditors escape capitalist realism? Ernst Bloch in the Principle of Hope claimed “music emerges, the art of strongest intensity distilled into song and sound, of the utopian Humanum in the world”.

I’ll share the playlist in other subs when it feels more done.

u/Jlyplaylists — 5 days ago
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Anti-war song featuring Pete Hegseth (...for those who long for an old-skool protest song)

Too many narcist leaders playing with the toys today!

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u/Fuzz-Ambassador — 4 days ago
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What does "Abschreckungslärm" mean in Gans Eysler's "Der Offene Aufmarsch"?

ITT. Googling it brings to the song, rather than any definition. Evidently it is a compound word for *something*, but I do not speak German and cannot figure what.

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u/DudeNamedWish — 6 days ago
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Guitar designs?

Hello! I intend to get an acoustic guitar and I want to customize it in some way. Does anyone have a guitar that has a political message/design on it, whether painted, drawn, etc.? I would prefer something more lowkey or that has a bit of plausible deniability, but photos for reference and inspiration would be great!

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u/Pretty-Hovercraft-27 — 10 days ago
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The Galley (Il Galeone, Belgrado Pedrini)

A translation and adaptation of the song by Belgrado Pedrini, an Italian anarchist and antifascist partisan. Pedrini took part in expropriations of Italian capitalists who supported the fascists, during the resistance to Mussolini's regime. After the war, the new Italian republic considered his expropriations to be criminal, not political activity, and threw him in prison. He stayed imprisoned until the early 1970s, and only enjoyed four years of freedom after his release before his death. He remained a committed anarchist, especially doing solidarity work for those imprisoned, until he passed away.

Che la terra ti sia lieve, compagno.

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u/Plotnikov34 — 10 days ago
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Each country has one. Now we need one for the whole world.

I think each continent could have a different part. And scientists in Antarctica could write it for said contient. Each part segues (transitions) perfectly with each other.

It could be about peace and harmony and it should be played at every UN meeting.

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u/IDontKnowMyUsernameq — 14 days ago
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A song about current condition of economy and of the world

I made a dystopian hip-hop track about living in a glitching simulation, with falling economy.
Thought the song might fit here.

We are working 40 hours just to barely survive the inflation stress-test. Anyone else feeling like an NPC lately?

u/BhagwadBhakt — 13 days ago